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Bernhardt, Modjeska, Booth, Salvini, Joseph Jefferson once declaimed and strutted before Central City's miners and bonanza kings. When General Grant came to town, a street was paved with $12,000 worth of silver bricks. Then the end of the mining rush left Central City nearly deserted. Its resurrection began when descendants of the original builder gave the Opera House to the University of Denver. The theater was refurbished, its hickory chairs restored, and the curtain went up on Lillian Gish in Camille, designed and directed by Robert Edmond Jones...
Said the London Times of the new British project: "[Even among well-educated Britons] Washington is a half-mythical figure who couldn't tell a lie. Jefferson is almost wholly forgotten. Lincoln is remembered because he abolished slavery rather than because he saved the Union. ... In every sense a world in which American leadership is effective will be a new world. That is one of the many reasons why the study of American history, American institutions and above all American traditions is of prime importance to the rising generation in this country...
...Almost from the beginning it was recognized that our security depended not merely upon relative geographical remoteness, but equally upon the European balance of power, the maintenance of the British Navy. . . . Even Thomas Jefferson, who coined the phrase 'no entangling alliances' . . . was quite prepared if necessary that we should 'marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.' " We have never fought for Britain, says Earle, until Britain could no longer fight for us. Against This Torrent would be an important book if it did no more than start readers reading Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton and John...
...torrent which has for some time been bearing down all before it." These words, from which Earle takes his title, were not uttered in 1941, but in 1803. Even more remarkable, they are not the words of a fervent interventionist, but one of America's most uncompromining pacifists--Thomas Jefferson...
Earle is not content to let this statement go unproven, however; he buttresses his argument with numerous incidents in our history as well as statements by our political leaders. For example, he returns to Jefferson, favorite prototype of contemporary isolationists, to show that even he was willing "to marry our selves to the British fleet and nation" in order to prevent Napoleon from occupying Louisiana...